What is dangerous avitaminosis?
The modern citizen lives in a furious rhythm. A busy schedule, lack of high-quality rest, bad habits, bad ecology and poor-quality food are all concepts familiar to each of us.
Referring to a doctor with chronic fatigue,headaches, and many other ailments, we often hear the word beriberi. What is this? Why does this attack haunt us, and why is it dangerous? Let's try to understand.
What is vitamin deficiency?
Despite the fact that the word beriberi knows evenkindergarten, very few people understand the essence of the phenomenon. For the high-quality functioning of the body vitamins are needed, they participate in all the biochemical processes in it occurring.
For example, vitamin A provides skin health, Eparticipates in fat metabolism, C is an antioxidant, D normalizes calcium-phosphorus metabolism, a group of B vitamins is essential for protein and carbohydrate metabolism, high-quality work of the nervous system and hematopoiesis. The list goes on. Unfortunately, the body itself can not produce the substances so necessary to it, therefore, it must receive them from food. The condition in which there is a deficit of one or more vitamins is called avitaminosis.
Causes of the disease
What leads to a lack of vitamins in the body. First of all, it is unbalanced or poor-quality food. In the daily diet of man must necessarily be present vegetables and fruits, sour-milk products, eggs, meat and fish. Uniform food also provokes a deficit of biologically active substances. The second reason, more serious, is associated with abnormalities in the work of the digestive system. That is, vitamins come in, and they can not internalize their body. Well and last negative factor - reception of various medicines, many of which vitamins neutralize.
Symptoms of beriberi
To understand whether a person has vitamin deficiency, can onlythe doctor and that by means of the analysis of a blood. However, there are symptoms that should make you alert. If the body lacks vitamins, then a person constantly feels tired, gets up in the morning, gets tired quickly, constantly tends to sleep. In patients, the capacity for work and mental activity is reduced, memory often fails.
The skin is especially affected. It begins to peel off, inflammation or pigmentation spots may appear. Deficiency of vitamins A, E, and C leads to the appearance of acne and acne. If you do not pay attention to the signals of your own body, the consequences can be very sad. For example, scurvy occurs in the absence of vitamin C, night blindness is A, and an insufficient amount of vitamin D promotes the development of rickets.
How to treat beriberi?
The simplest and most affordable method is multivitamins. With their choice, be guided by the manufacturer and the availability of a quality certificate. Pay attention to the composition. If you buy the drug for a preventive course, then it should include all the biologically active substances necessary for the body. Remember that multivitamins are natural and synthetic, it is believed that the first are better absorbed. However, before you run to the pharmacy, try to balance your diet.
Vitamins A are found in the liver, cottage cheese, eggs andfish; B - in dairy products, cereals, legumes; citrus, radish and peas - a source of vitamin C, and eggs, vegetable oil and meat - D. If, in addition to nutrition, you add regular walks in the fresh air and the absence of bad habits, then no avitaminosis will not be terrible.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
